On March 7, 2012, a group of young people, the members of AEGEE (Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe) Piliscsaba, following main organizer Dóra Kocsis, showed their enthusiasm and engagement towards the universal principles of the UN.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU), a recently enrolled member of the UNAI programme, hosted their first international conference on the MDGs’, as well as an exhibition, in the framework of the UNAI initiative.

Serving as the basis of the images of the “Picturing the MDGs! - Visualisation of the Millennium Development Goals”, the international event took place on 24-28th  August, 2011 at PPCU in Piliscsaba, Hungary featuring participants from five different countries. The aim of the get-together was to visually introduce the MDGs, as pictures are arguably more expressive than words.  They are clearly capable of revealing the most salient problems of the affected countries.

The conference was a professional completion of a year-long cogitation about the MDGs. The opening address was conveyed by Eszter Lukács, member of Presidium at UNA-H and professor of UNAI-affiliate Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary. The speeches delivered by representatives of Amnesty International and numerous other NGOs of global coverage tackled the issues of poverty, hunger and maternal health were followed by an afternoon session dedicated entirely to the Rio+20 conference and sustainability concerns expanded with a presentation by PPCU lecturer Tamás Szigetvári.

While fifty percent of the Earth’s population is under 30, the main organizer, Ms. Dóra Kocsis believes that the voice of young people needs to be heard more than ever before. She deployed a 'good practice' for the implementation of global partnership by inviting young speakers from Ukraine, Germany and Albania to share they ideas about building transnational networks and sustainable ways of living.